Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox Updater

CVE-2016-2826 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

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